Ukrainian missile producers are now among Russia’s top targets for future strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Tuesday, pledging a response.
Zelensky said Russia’s focus will include military, political, and propaganda attacks on companies making progress in missile development – including efforts to build domestic ballistic systems and localize anti-ballistic defense production.
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“Russia defines this as a strategic threat to itself,” he said.
Zelensky reported that he received a briefing from the head of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Oleh Ivashchenko, on Russian missile production.
The report detailed production facilities, ranges, quantities and supply routes for critical components and machine tools, as well as individuals and companies in other countries that help Russia bypass sanctions, Zelensky said.
“We are preparing updates to our countermeasures – Ukrainian measures and those coordinated with partners,” he said. “It is important that pressure on Russia increases.”
He also said military intelligence has obtained new internal Russian documents on political planning which concern Ukraine’s relations with Moldova, the countries of the South Caucasus, the Middle East and the Gulf region.
One of Russia’s key political tasks, he said, is to restrict Ukraine’s security, economic and other strategic ties with these states. According to him, this only confirms that Ukraine and its partners are moving in the right direction towards greater security and further strengthening of sovereignty.
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Zelensky urges Europe to back states under Russian pressure
As the Baltic states continue to fortify their borders and harden their defenses against Russia and potential Belarus attacks, Zelensky has urged Europe to significantly increase its support for every nation that Russia has “sunk its teeth into.”
Speaking ahead of Armenia’s elections, he cast the issue as both a political question and a matter of people’s fundamental right to choose their own future – arguing that Europe has the capacity, and the obligation, to uphold the basic rules that underpin that choice.
Concerns are continuing to grow over war possibly spilling into wider NATO territory, with the recent Russian drone strike on an apartment block in Romania following dozens of earlier airspace violations.
“We will have relevant proposals in our work with partners. Thank you to everyone who is helping!” he said, underscoring that Europe and Ukraine must act together to neutralize Russian influence and strengthen regional security.
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